Activating a Redgate Monitor trial license

Redgate Monitor trial licenses aren't compatible with the new Redgate.com licensing server and can only be applied if the trial license is the only license being used. This means that if you have already purchased and activated a Redgate Monitor or SQL Toolbelt license you will need to remove this license before applying your trial license.

Click on Allocate your licenses on red-gate.com - you will be prompted to log in with an email address and password. If you don't have a RedGate ID follow the instructions in Creating and managing your Redgate ID.

You will be able to see all Redgate Monitor licenses available to your ID and add or remove any of them from your Monitor installation. 

When you go back to the Licensing page and refresh you will be able to see the updated number of licenses available to assign to your servers.

You will be shown when the activation has been successful with a blue banner indicating the time left on the trial:

Offline activation

If you don't have an internet connection you will need to activate your trial license manually.

Assigning licenses to servers

The license allocation page shows all the servers you are monitoring and indicates whether or not they are licensed in the License state column. The possible values for this are:

• Unlicensed: the server has not been marked as licensed. It is therefore not being monitored.
• Licensed: the server has been marked as licensed and there are sufficient licenses available for it. It is therefore being monitored.
• Awaiting: the server has been marked as licensed but there are not enough available licenses remaining. It is therefore not being monitored. It will become licensed if sufficient licenses become available, either by purchasing more licenses or by marking a different licensed server as unlicensed.

Redgate Monitor detects the number of servers currently being monitored and allocates available licenses to them automatically. If, during your evaluation, you were monitoring more servers than you purchased licenses for, or you subsequently add more servers to monitor than you have licenses available, the servers added most recently will not be allocated licenses and will be in the Awaiting state.

You can change which servers are marked as licensed by selecting them in the table and using the License and Unlicense buttons.

In the example below, 5 licenses have been purchased and a single license has been allocated to the single server currently being monitored. There are 4 spare licenses available.